Marie-Pier is an adventuress, a high-altitude mountain climber who ascends the highest mountains on the planet. She became the first woman to successfully climb the 7 highest volcanic summits.

Already from a young age, she became interested in discovering the world and in challenging herself. In May 2021, Marie-Pier reached the highest point on the planet, the Everest.

It was during this backpacking year abroad that the 2004 Tsunami made her captive of the waters in Phuket, Thailand. This experience of natural disasters soon drove her desire to work in the field of disaster management. It led her also to the Maldives where she studied the aftermath of the tsunami recovery as part of her master studies. Marie-Pier expatriated herself to Qatar not long after to work in the field.

Throughout her life much of Marie's journey has been about developing resilience, whether her own or in her line of work. Challenge's been an integral part of it. Marie is a survivor, a world traveler, a Québécoise woman who arrived in Qatar at a time where women empowerment was gaining a much-needed importance. Today, Marie-Pier wants to contribute to the women footprint, which is underrepresented in many fields, including in the world of mountaineering, by increasing the women to men ratio on the highest peaks of the world.

In July 2022, Marie-Pier became the first woman to raise the Canadian flag at the summit of K2 (Pakistan). She then climbed Mount Vinson and Mount Sidley in Antarctica in January 2023. In doing so, she became the first woman in the Americas to reach the summit of the 7 highest volcanoes on 7 continents.

Armed with these formative experiences, Marie-Pier now shares her mountain knowledge with groups of mountaineering initiates. She also recounts her story and climbs in her book Nous sommes des montagnes, published in February 2024.